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Or 5062

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Or 5062
Title:
Japheth ben Ali's commentary on Ezekiel
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Extent:
238 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1459
End Date:
1459
Date Range:
1459
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Names:
Fischl Hirsch
Japheth ben Ali, ha-Levi, fl 10th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108004178,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/54984961,
Japheth ben Ali, ha-Levi, fl 10th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108004178,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/54984961,
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 5062

Japheth ben Ali's commentary on Ezekiel

Contents

The commentary of Japheth ben Ali on the Book of Ezekiel.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-238v
Title: Perush Yeḥezḳel
Title: פרוש יחזקאל

Concerns Ezekiel 26:7 to the end.

Of the Hebrew text only the opening word or words of each verse are given in the body of of the pages. The full text has been added in the margins in a similar contemporary hand.

An Arabic translation is given to each verse.

A number of masoretic notes.

The manuscript ends in the middle of the remarks on the last verse of the book.

Author: Japheth ben Ali, ha-Levi,‏ active 10th century יפת בן עלי, הלוי
Colophon: אלגז אלתאני יום אלאתנין אלמבארך סאדס ועשרין מן שהר די אלקעדה סנה תלתה וסתין ותמאן מאיה לקרן זער' תשבר במה' אמן: כתבתי אני העבד הצעיר יוסף בן השר הגדול בעם האל מר' ורבי' אלעזר בן השר הגדול בעם האל מר' ורבי' יפת ירחמם צורם [...] במדינת הבחירה וצמח דויד [...] מצרים [...] f. 119v
Incipit: פאן כדא קאל אלרב אללאה הא אנא מגיב אלי צר בכתנצר מלך בבל מן אלעראק מלך אלמלוך בכיל וברכב ובפוארס וגוק ושעב עטים כתיר: f. 1r

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 238 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 224 × 147 mm.
Dimensions (written): 190 × 102 mm.
Foliation:

238 folios (+ 2 paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires arranged in two groups (folios 1-119 and 120-238), originally of mostly 10 leaves each.

Signatures in Hebrew letters on the righ-hand upper corner of the first page, now wholly or partially lost.

Incomplete at the beginning and at the end, with several lacunae throughout.

Condition

Lacunae after folios 6, 63, 92, 119, 147, 152, 165, 176, 199, 221.

Several folios mutilated.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 21

Written lines: 21

Uniform layout.

Masoretic notes and large portion of text supplied in the margins.

Visible ruling with a mastara.

Hand(s)

Oriental square script of the 15th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Yefeth's Commentary on Ezekiel. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 5062.'

History

Origin: 1459 Egypt (Cairo?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Fischl Hirsch: purchased by the British Library from him on 16 July 1896: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5062 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 286.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL